[Yoda]

   The most common argument for legalization of cannabis these days is that the medical befits outweigh the negligible side effects caused by its use, and that on the toxicity scale, Cannabis is safer to use than any other pharmaceutical drugs, including aspirin. Add to this argument the damage that prohibition is doing to the fabric of society, and the picture becomes clearer.

   In fact, prohibition of alcohol was once repealed for this very reason. The violent empire of Al Capone was founded on the existence of government prohibition. It grew fat on murder, rackets and violence until it reached into the highest levels of government and invaded it.

   If Capone had not gotten this assistance from government policy, his and many of the other huge criminal organizations in North America might never have reached their present level of power and control over our lives. Regardless of whether alcohol was good for us or not, the level of corruption its prohibition produced and the violent empire it spawned became a severe social problem once it reached the highest levels of official government. He simply bribed crooked police officers and paid off political figures to look the other way in order to get the job done.

   This policy failure is being repeated and continued due to the over 73 years of prohibition of Cannabis in the social marketplace. Clearly the demand for the product are still there, and the statistical  demographic percentage of people inclined to smoke cannabis has not changed, hovering in the single digits in spite of warnings of greater numbers of users. These stats too often are misrepresented by the ridiculous claim that based on a larger population, more people are being harmed by cannabis and its use.

   So while the administrations of governments ignore the facts, new and more sophisticated crime agencies are arriving from Hong Kong, Russia, eastern Europe, and setting up fast growing enterprises, relying once more on prohibition to finance their activities and buy into legitimate business, influence and corrupt government on a scale never seen before.

   The trouble begins there, and escalates as the new gangs compete with one another for rival territories, employ violent new weapons to attack each other and protect their interests,  causing terror and mayhem, and introducing more addictive drugs to their clientele. Soon they may own large companies, and begin influencing policy locally, treating society as a thing to be used for the sole purpose of greedy profits. Prohibition allows organized crime to reach into the highest levels of government with corruption and bribery, and become a monkey on society's back.

   There isn't a single good thing that comes about from prohibition. You can bet your bottom buck that the Triads, Mafia and the Hell's Angels don't give a rats ass for social health-care, since in the eyes of organized crime, old people represent a spent resource. The time for making nice  talk, shunting propaganda  and quasi-debating the pros and cons is finished.

   Go ahead and ask your local politician this:

Are you in favor of patients being punished by the prohibition of Cannabis?
Will you  Aid organized crime by supporting prohibition in the 21st century?
Will you stand up for your constituents and end the Corruption in Government caused by prohibition?
And you don't have to be nice about it, those officials are your servants, and you the tax-payer pay their wages.

My deepest respects to those who fight the good fight.

Yoda

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